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This Institution, established by the liberality of all classes who felt the great needs of such a school, is under the care of a Board of Trustees, (members of the Religious Society of Friends,) called the "Mooresville High School Association." While all sectarian and party proclivities are strictly excluded from the School, care will be taken to promote the cultivation and practical use of sound morals based upon the New Testament.

It is of a grade intermediate between the common schools and colleges, designed to offer extended opportunities both to such as wish to prepare for college, and to such as do not wish to incur the expense and spend the time of a regular college course, yet wish to qualify themselves for teaching in the common schools, or for the common business of life. To meet the wants of such, the School as well adapted.

The School has been in operation but one year; and although it opened late, under manifold disadvantages, it has more than filled the expectations of its most sanguine friends.

The teachers have spared no labor or pains to make it all that its friends could wish, and its present character attests their success.

Under a grateful sense of the favor of Providence, the Board cannot but express their thanks and obligations to the friends and patrons of the School for their practical co-operation.

In consequence of the of the past, and the encouraging prospect for the coming year, the Board have employed in addition to the former Principal, Samuel A. Hadley, A. H. as equal associate with him in the teachers' department, which arrangement, it is believed, will place the Institute on a  equal to any school of similar character in the country.

There is no primary department connected with the Institution, and it will be required of applicants for admission to understand spelling, reading and writing, so as to be able to progress with the studies they may enter upon without being retarded by a lack of knowledge in these branches. They will be required to understand the tables and elementary principles of arithmetic; and it is desired that they have a knowledge of the general outlines of geography, and be able to name the parts of speech and give the definitions in English Grammar.